Recent research has demonstrated a significant disadvantage for rural teachers in a variety of aspects of ICT use. This context provides a backdrop for two professional learning programs designed to support ICT-based pedagogies in teaching science in Victorian rural primary and secondary schools. In both programs the school-based workshops initiated a community of learners supported with online...

As new technologies offer an ever-increasing range of possibilities for supporting student learning, teachers struggle to keep abreast of the changes. This is especially the case for teachers in smaller rural schools who are isolated professionally from their colleagues. A group of teachers from four such schools in northern New South Wales combined to support each other in learning about anima...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of internet communication technologies (ICT) usage and reading literacy of Northeast Asian Students in PISA 2009. ICT was crucial for all governments in the world towards promoting equity. ICT had been considered a low cost opportunity towards equalizing educational systems. A multilevel modeling (MLM) was applied to identify at whic...

This paper focuses on differences of attitudes related to information and communication technologies among Czech university students. Students’ attitudes were evaluated summatively and with respect to gender, grade, and residence. The sample consisted of a total of 316 university students. The data analysis included factor analysis, ANCOVA, ANOVA, and t-test. The factor analysis yielded five di...

The study’s aim was to develop effective ICT based teaching strategies through a series of trials using theoretically grounded ICT task designs targeted at specific adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL learning objectives. Both the development of literacy skills through the use of ICT and the acquisition and development of ICT skills were examined. Working with a group of nine practitioners who ag...

The paper addresses the issue of unusual ICT tool application in the development of communicative competences during drama classes. It also presents the practical implementation of a case study method with the application of ICT tools. The case method was used for an interesting combination of acquiring communicative competences including drama skills by means of applying modern computer softwa...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of ICT use on achievements by considering not only ICT use, but also the process and background variables that influence ICT use at both the studentand school-level. This study was conducted using data from the 2010 Survey of Seoul Education Longitudinal Research. A Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analysis was employed to control the stude...